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    It might push more power users away. It won’t push away the teeming masses.

    Quality will suffer, but they’ll keep their traffic.

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      Yeah but there will still be decay. The teeming masses are there to see what the power users are doing. A dip in content quality will lead to a migration like what came a couple years after the Digg migration when the Stumbleupon folks needed a new home

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      I can live with that. Actually, I would be happy with that if that means those power users will be coming here.